Category: Fitness

How to handle emotional eating during the holiday season

November 13, 2013 0 Comments
How to handle emotional eating during the holiday season

By Betty Murray The holidays are a difficult time for many people, are they hard for you? Perhaps this holiday season will be your first without a loved one. Maybe you have to spend the holiday away from family and friends. Whatever the reason, it isn’t uncommon for the holidays to bring about depression. Coping with […]

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5 Tips to Help You Avoid Holiday Weight Gain

November 6, 2013 0 Comments
5 Tips to Help You Avoid Holiday Weight Gain

By Betty Murray For most Americans, holidays are often a time of breaking diets, overeating and weight gain. While a 10 pound weight gain over the holidays might be extreme, adding on one or two pounds of extra padding during the holiday season isn’t uncommon. During the holidays, we have a tendency to eat more than […]

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Want to lose weight? Don’t skip breakfast

October 29, 2013 0 Comments
Want to lose weight? Don’t skip breakfast

By Betty Murray            This won’t be the last time you’ll here this: Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. A new report from Cornell University muddies the water a bit about the importance of breakfast, but don’t let the results of the study fool you. Skipping breakfast is not […]

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Healthy bodies need healthy brains

October 18, 2013 0 Comments
Healthy bodies need healthy brains

By Betty Murray If your brain is tired, your body will be too. A new study on mental fatigue found that mental exertion might play a role in lessening endurance, resulting in shortened workouts, even if the body has plenty of energy reserve left for a longer workout. For years, scientists have studied the relationship between […]

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Simple Ways to Cut 250 Calories a Day

October 13, 2013 0 Comments
Simple Ways to Cut 250 Calories a Day

By Betty Murray Losing weight comes down to one thing: are you burning more calories than you take in? Eating well and exercising regularly are essential for a strong, healthy body, but if you want to burn fat, you have to decrease the amount of calories you eat in a day and increase the amount of […]

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5 CrossFit Exercise You Can Do at Home

September 1, 2013 0 Comments
5 CrossFit Exercise You Can Do at Home

By Betty Murray CrossFit is a form of exercise developed by Coach Greg Glassman and is defined as “that which optimizes fitness (constantly varied functional movements performed at relatively high intensity).” (www.crossfit.com) CrossFit is a sport that has no specialty, but rather brings together elements of every other sport and form of workout to create one […]

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How to Stay Hydrated in 100+ Heat

August 24, 2013 0 Comments
How to Stay Hydrated in 100+ Heat

By Betty Murray Water is essential for health and wellness, but staying hydrated in 100+ degree heat isn’t easy. There are serious health consequences of dehydration, including: heat exhaustion, heat stroke and in extreme cases, death. Don’t assume you can do without drinking water, and plenty of it. The good news is that dehydration can be […]

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Six Habits of Fit People

August 16, 2013 0 Comments
Six Habits of Fit People

Ever wonder how the world’s fittest people got fit and stay that way? While they may have genes that make a fit body a little bit easier to achieve, the fittest people didn’t get that way by accident. The truth is that fitness takes time and dedication. It requires forming healthy habits, and breaking the […]

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Start Thanksgiving Off Right by Participating in the Turkey Trot

November 16, 2012 0 Comments
Start Thanksgiving Off Right by Participating in the Turkey Trot

By Betty Murray No better way to start your Thanksgiving Day than with a little exercise! Join thousands of other Dallas residents in the 2012 Capital One Bank Dallas YMCA Turkey Trot in Downtown Dallas. This is the largest Thanksgiving Day event of its kind in the country. Last year, more than 38,000 men, women and [...]

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Plan a Gluten-Free Thanksgiving with These Tips

November 14, 2012 0 Comments
Plan a Gluten-Free Thanksgiving with These Tips

By Betty Murray Gluten-free diets are more common today than ever. An ever-increasing number of restaurants now accommodate gluten-free diets with special menus and grocery stores have added entire sections stocked full of gluten-free foods. Some individuals are on a gluten-free diet for medical reasons, including celiac disease or a gluten allergy or gluten sensitivity, while [...]

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